M&E Assistant
Country Afghanistan Province Kandahar,
Categories Monitoring and Evaluation, Type Full Time
Post Date 2024-06-18 Close Date 2024-06-18
Vacancy No 1371 Gender male female
No Of Jobs 1 Contract Duration 6 Months (Extendable)
Education University degree related to Social Science, and Management or Computer science. Experience At least 3 years of relevant and regular experience in M&E and data management. International organization experience is preferred
Organization Opportunities for you Salary As per ROP salary Scale

About Company

About Roots of Peace: Roots of Peace is a humanitarian organization that has worked in war-torn countries around the world with our partners to remove the remnants of war, landmines and unexploded ordinance, and restore the land in order to rebuild peaceful communities for generations to come. For the past twenty years, the Roots of Peace award-winning “Mines to Vines” approach has impacted one million farmers and families, enabling the exports worth over $150 million to international markets. Since beginning our work in Afghanistan in 2003, Roots of Peace has worked with agricultural value chains in every province of the country resulting in 100,000 tons of exports, creating over 9,000 full-time agribusiness jobs that benefited more than 38,000 families from these value chain approaches. From farmers to exporters, Roots of Peace develops entire agricultural value chains by implementing the ROP Development Model which is designed to serve as a catalyst to generate much broader impact industry-wide - improving incomes for smallholder farmers, bringing peace to rural communities, transforming national industries.

Job Description

Position Summary

The Monitoring & Evaluation Assistant will work under the direct supervision of the Senior M&E Specialist. The Assistant is tasked with overseeing, collecting, analyzing, and reporting on all program field activities based on indicators to the Senior M&E Specialist following reporting criteria to maintain the highest quality in program implementations.

Tasks

Assist with the development of Management Information System (MIS) initiatives that focus on M&E activities.

Plan and conduct periodical field visits to monitor the CBARD program and activities to verify programmatic progress.

Coordinate with other departments to ensure proper understanding and resources.

Assist the field officer in their work by providing geographical and spatial data.

Train staff in Global positioning systems (GPS) technology, field data collection, survey design and implementation

Assist the field officers in their work by providing monitoring and spatial data on program activity.

Collect, manage, integrate, and analyze field data.

Analyze M&E data, develop and submit appropriate reports to the line manager.

Quality control on data collection and integration processes

To assist different programs in setting up M&E systems and functioning effectively.

To provide technical and capacity-building support to programs/projects in developing/ establishing appropriate result-based M & E systems and program/project staff are trained and confident in using the tools.

To ensure that the M & E findings and organizational learning of the program are appropriately documented and disseminated at different levels.

Keep involved in appropriately carrying out and documentation of different assessments, small-scale qualitative studies, feasibility & case studies.

To work collaboratively with colleagues of the Programme to ensure excellence within CBARD’s work is captured, promoted, and disseminated.

Any other tasks assigned by suppervisor.

Job Requirement

Desired Education:

  • University degree related to Social Science, and Management or Computer science.

Experience:

  • At least 3 years of relevant and regular experience in M&E and data management.
  • 1nternational organization experience is preferred.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Strong statistical analysis skills are required.
  • Knowledge of UN and USAID M&E systems is required.
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills.
  • If required, willingness to travel to other areas of Afghanistan.
  • Professional Fluency in English (working language), and language skills in
  • Pashto and Dari are required. Sensitive to cultural and gender issues, capable of working both independently and within a team on tasks with short deadlines.

Submission Guideline

Important Note: Applicants should copy and paste the relevant Vacancy Announcement Number, Position Title, and Province Name (mentioned below) into the email subject line when submitting their application. Please do not add any other information in the subject line of your email except the Position title, Vacancy Number, and province name. Applications received without a VA Number will not be considered. 

1. M&E Assistant (AFN-1371)

"Roots of Peace does not want to disrupt government functionings and therefore cannot hire government staff".

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